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Re: Need help for figuring out missing memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Smith)
Sun Oct 18 01:55:49 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:59:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kevin Smith <kevin@mtsu.edu>
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Philip Chan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed caldera open linux 1.3 to my machine which has 96 MB
> RAM but when I ran 'free' and 'top' only 64 MB was reported. Could someone
> help me to fix this problem?
>
I believe this one is a FAQ, but I'll respond anyway... in order to access
memory above 64MB, you will need to specify how much memory you have on
your system to the kernel at boot time.. you can view this by typing
"linux mem=96M" instead of just "linux" at the lilo prompt... or you can
make a simple change to your lilo.conf to keep the change...
just add the following to the appropriate section of your lilo.conf and
re-run lilo to rewrite the boot sector information...
-- CUT --
append="mem=96M"
-- CUT --
That should take care of your problem...
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Kevin Smith
kevin@mtsu.edu
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